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01-05-2015 12:11 PM 		Reply to: Message 603 by ringo
01-05-2015 12:06 PM

Re: thought experiment and turning this into an example of science
... I think it's a case of the artist not knowing much about wooden cranes. We could probably find a lot of other things to nit-pick in the drawing ...
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Such as the top-heavy narrow base design ... on wheels ...
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And I think we can say with high confidence that there is no such crane construction of this sort seen in any documented historical ancient cranes ... so Hammy isn't doing either historical OR observational science ...
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01-05-2015 12:22 PM 		Reply to: Message 602 by Percy
01-05-2015 11:51 AM

boom sideways collapse
... Notice how the region between the two beams of the boom appears to be whited out? This is especially apparent near the top of the boom where the whiting out has caused most of the pulley to be missing. ...
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If this is not an A-frame, then that may represent cables to a cross beam (the dark square in the gap near the top side of the hull?) going around the tip and down the other side, similar to the stays on a mast.
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Without something to control sideways collapse of the boom, and any little swing of the load laterally would likely result in catastrophic failure ... regardless of construction of the stick ...
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